http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/why-gary-johnson-isnt-taken-seriously/61631/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/05/05/gary_johnson_most_interesting_republican"His chances are zero," political analyst Stu Rothenberg says via e-mail. "I'd say that they are less than zero, if there was such a thing. I'd expect his impact to be nonexistent."
Ask Johnson what he thinks of Barack Obama, for instance, and rather than the stream of vitriol that might issue semi-automatically from the lips of some party colleagues, he answers: "You can't help but like him."
Johnson seems ill at ease with the belligerent icons of modern-day conservatism. What does he think of the idol of the Tea Partiers, Glenn Beck?
"I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him."
Does he listen to Rush Limbaugh?
"I don't. Not that I haven't [ever]. But I don't tune in to Rush."
On other issues, Johnson doesn't bother to hide his disdain for his party's hard-liners. Take the incendiary new immigration law passed in Arizona, for instance:
"I just don't think it's going to work," he says. "I think it' s going to lead to racial profiling. I don't how you determine one individual from another -- is it color of skin? -- as to whether one is an American citizen or the other is an illegal immigrant."
